Sri Lanka, another country from the Indian subcontinent with NDM-1-producing Enterobacteriaceae

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2172-2173

  Dortet, Laurent ^a   Brechard, Ludivine ^a   Grenet, Karine ^b   Nguessan, Marie Stéphane ^b   Nordmann, Patrice ^a  

^a Associated French National Reference Center for Antibiotic Resistance: Carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae   (France)

^b Centre Hospitalier de Lagny   (France)

Author keywords

Carbapenemases; Epidemiology; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Prostatitis

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMOXICILLIN; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DORIPENEM; ERTAPENEM; FLUCONAZOLE; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NETILMICIN; NITROFURANTOIN; PIPERACILLIN; PLASMID DNA; SODIUM AZIDE; TICARCILLIN; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DISK DIFFUSION; DNA EXTRACTION; EMERGENCY WARD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; FRANCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; INDIA; INDIAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTATITIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SRI LANKA; TREATMENT DURATION; URINARY CATHETER; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE;

CARBAPENEMASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PROSTATITIS;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84882698933     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkt145     Document Type: Letter

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